Iraq Pt Deux

I was watching MSNBC this morning and listening to a reporter from the Huffington Post by the name of Tom Hayden. In his interview he disclosed some information that makes the administration look not so good. He wrote an article which states that there may be some talks going on between some of our government officials and Sunni Muslims in the area to replace the current Shiite led government. Well, well, well. This is a major embarrassment. Sadam Hussein himself was a Sunni and if this report is true this is like saying we should have left Sadam in power. Now there is a move to revert back to a Sunni led government because they did not realize that this same Shiite led Iraqi government could one day unite with the Shiite government that is in Iran (think about this weekend’s summit between Syria Iraq and Iran and the possibility of Lebanon joining in via Hezbollah).

Further reading of this article unfolds what appears to be a total roll back of every premise this “war” was designed to take care of. Wow. What an embarrassment, secret meetings with the Sunnis and even the secretary of state doing a Colin Powell. You have to wonder what were they drinking, I mean thinking? Now that role reversal is underway what will the Shiite Muslims do? Lay down and roll over? Probably not. These low level talks that Mr. Hayden has reported about are, according to his article, suppose to help bring some type of truce. But I don’t see how if the talks are one sided. Moktada al-Sadr does not appear to be the type of person that is going to take any such transition eating ice cream and the Shiite in Iraq have their Iranian connection being that the government in Iran is Shiite also. Can you say escalated chaos?

So next will be a showdown between the Mahdi Army who are led by al-Sadr and US forces, if the Sunnis do gain control in Iraq. But with Iraqi President Talabani going to Iran this weekend to meet with Ahmadinejad, that is something that makes you go mmm. What if he asks the Iranian president for support against such a move?

Our leaders are expected to be in the region next week and it will be very interesting to see what plays out over there. The president is going to be meeting with the Iraqi prime minister next week and no doubt he will want to know what happened in that meeting between the Iranian and the Iraqi presidents.

If there is any connection between these low level talks with the Sunni and the President no doubt his meeting with the Prime Minister will be a gauge as to what should be the next move. And in light of pass statements made by Prime Minister al-Maliki not to long ago, most notable, that “I’m not America’s man in Iraq” statement, he may be getting that vote of confidence you get when you are getting the heave ho.